Week of Jun 16
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Week of Jun 16
Nothing says Pride month like too many gay movies to see in the same week, so let's dive in. This week has an embarrassment of riches, and everyone should try to see at least one of these great picks this week:
The Dyke Show by JEB (Joan E. Biren)
Jun 17, 7:00 PM @ Getty Museum
Artist JEB in person
A traveling show originally titled "Lesbian Images in Photography: 1850–1984," this landmark combination of images and narration by JEB is a landmark part of Queer art history. And while you're at the Getty, check out new exhibitions Queer Lens: A History of Photography and $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives.
Sauna
Jun 18, 7:30 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Mathias Broe & co-writer William Lippert in person
Black Cat Cinema Series puts up a bonus screening for their debut month, bringing the LA Premiere of Danish cis-guy/trans-guy romance Sauna, fresh from Sundance.
Last Exit Gran Canaria
Jun 21, 8:00 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
WORLD PREMIERE. Use code pride25 for $5 off your ticket, and also check out Film Invasion's screenplay awards, with special prizes for LGBTQ+ films.
At 64, the filmmaker Tim Lienhard describes this sexual self-development in his autofictional film essay. Identity, sexuality, aging and self-esteem are the leitmotifs of this dazzling documentary, which impresses with its shameless openness as it is a plea for freedom in regressive times.
Tickets from Film Invasion Los Angeles
Thanks for Visiting us at Pride!
Thanks to everyone who came to WeHo and LA Pride to visit our booth! It was great to meet so many Queer film fans, and we'll be sending out raffle announcements this week. If you need to find some picks for your watch list, check out our community-sourced list of Queer Awakening movies on Letterboxd.
We can't want for more chances to meet you all!
Queer, Period
The Academy Museum's Queer, Period screening series kicks off tonight and runs through Jun 30. Use code QueerPeriod2025 for a $2 discount.
Orlando
Jun 15, 6:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Adapted from Virginia Woolfe's novel, this film follows Tilda Swinton as Orlando, an young nobleman who lives for centuries, and awakes one day to find himself transformed into a woman. Watch it, then check out last year's Teddy documentary winner Orlando: My Political Biography.
The Handmaiden
Jun 20, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook adapted the Victorian lesbian con artist psychological thriller Fingersmith into 2016's critically acclaimed The Handmaiden, moving the setting to Japanese-occupied Korea as our main characters set out to seduce and rob a Japanese heiress.
Victor/Victoria
Jun 22, 6:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Julie Andrews stars in this musical remake of the 1933 German film about a woman singer who takes a job as a female impersonator.
Also This Week
Knife + Heart
Jun 16, 9:45 PM @ Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
Jun 19, 8:00 PM & Jun 20, 10:00 PM @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
Paris, Summer 1979. Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald. But one of her actors is brutally murdered and Anne gets caught up in a strange investigation that turns her life upside-down.
Transmasc Tuesday: Short Films Screening
Jun 17, 6:00 PM @ RSVP for Venue
Join us for a special night of transmasculine centered short films and conversation programmed by Rraine Hanson.
The Kids Are All Right
Jun 17, 7:00 PM @ Landmark Pasadena
Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting when the father, two mothers and children start to become attached to each other.
Tickets from Landmark Theatres
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
Jun 21, 4:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Author Caden Mark Gardner in person
One of the first films to even feature a trans lead actor, Warhol muse Holly Woodlawn stars in this wacko underground musical comedy, which has been lovingly restored by the Academy Film Archive and American Genre Film Archive.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
All About My Mother
Jun 17 & 18, 7:30 PM @ New Beverly Cinema
double feature with Talk to Her
This compassionate, sprawling melodrama follows Manuela after the death of her 17 year-old son Esteban. She sets out in search of Esteban's father, now a trans woman named Lola, who is sick with AIDS. It's the kind of film only Almodóvar can make, lurid and lovely and memorable.
Ponyboi
Jun 18, 7:00 PM @ AMC Burbank 16
Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Jun 18, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Yukio Mishima's estate didn't let Paul Schrader do more than hint at the homosexuality of the controversial Japanese writer turned right-winger, but Mishima's writings were deeply interwoven with gay themes and characters.
Querelle
Jun 20, 7:00 PM & Jun 21, 4:00 PM @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
The final film made by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, this adaptation of the Jean Genet novel follows a sailor on leave in France as he simultaneously tries to cover up his involvement in a murder and embarks on a sexual odyssey of self-discovery.
Queens of Drama
Jun 20, 7:00 PM & Jun 22, 10:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
An outrageous lesbian pop musical satire inspired by the pop frenzy of the early 2000s, Queens of Drama charts the rise and fall of new star Mimi Madamour and her passionate, rage-fueled love affair with punk icon Billie Kohler.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Bound
Jun 20, 8:30 PM @ Videotheque
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
Happy Together
Jun 20, 10:30 PM @ Landmark Nuart
Jun 21, 8:00 PM & Jun 22, 6:00 PM @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
Beautifully shot and wonderfully acted, the brokenhearted romance at the center of this groundbreaking film, about a gay couple from Hong Kong trying to start over in Argentina, will leave you in tears over and over again.
Tickets from Landmark Theatres
FREE: Short Films by the Gay Girls Riding Club
Jun 21, 2:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Not Streaming Anywhere!
Come see new digital restorations of four short films by the Gay Girls Riding Club, a pre-Stonewall club of gay entertainment industry pros (including cinematographers Ray Harrison and James Crabe) who made high camp drag satires of popular films.
La Belle et la Bête
Jun 21, 3:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Writer Chloë Cassens in person
As in Orpheus, bisexual writer/filmmaker/surrealist Jean Cocteau casts his lover, French screen superstar Jean Marais, in a magical film full of pioneering special effects.
The Wizard of Oz
Jun 16, 18 & 20, 2:00 PM @ Academy Museum
What movie better deserves the "Not Queer But Queer" label? Historians may debate exactly why Judy Garland was such an icon to the gay community, but for years being a "friend of Dorothy" was code for how closeted queers could find each other. See her in this iconic role.
Sleepaway Camp
Jun 16, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Authors BJ & Harmony Colangelo in person
Equally as memorable as it is problematic, Sleepaway Camp is an iconic 80s slasher with a complicated place in queer horror representation and history. The screening will be introduced by BJ & Harmony Colangelo, authors of the critical text SLEEPAWAY CAMP from DieDieBooks.
SOLD OUT: Naked Lunch
Jun 16, 7:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Star Peter Weller in person
4K restoration Premiere!
Luca Guadagnino's "Queer" is adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by outlaw beat writer William S Burroughs, as is Naked Lunch, which director David Cronenberg describes as the story of a closeted man trying to cure himself of his homosexuality.
Rebecca
Jun 19, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 & 10:00 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
In Alfred Hitchcock's first American film, the villainous housekeeper Mrs. Danvers is coded as a lesbian--whose unhealthy obsession with the gentleman's dead first wife motivates her to try to destroy his new bride.
John Waters Double Feature
Desperate Living & Female Trouble
Jun 19, 7:30 PM @ Vista Theater Hollywood
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jun 21, 7:00 PM @ Old Town Music Hall
Though married to Agnes Varda for most of this life, French New Wave icon Jacques Demy was bisexual and died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. He is best known for his sunny musicals of the 1960s, where his voice shines through with romantic optimism.
Tickets from Old Town Music Hall
